Volume 06, Chapter 06 of Visual Verse is now open for submissions.
Image by Martin Reisch
Submit your writing > (https://visualverse.org/submit/)
Dear readers, writers and friends,
April is the cruelest month – they say – although we don’t think so here at Visual Verse. We have some fine lead writing and an enigmatic image to get your creativity springing. Maybe even, we think, this ‘person in field’ is in a kind of conversation with March’s astronaut. It’s all getting very meta these days and that’s one of the best things about receiving your submissions – they create a conversation about art, writing and just letting yourself try that makes for an enthralling read every single month. Thank you, writers!
This month, our image is by Martin Reisch, a photographer based in Montreal who has a penchant for wonderfully quirky aerial shots.
Our lead Amy Sackville (http://amysackville.co.uk/) is a writer of fiction and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Kent. Her most recent novel, Painter to the King (http://grantabooks.com/painter-to-the-king-3) , about the painter Diego Velázquez and the court of Philip IV of Spain, was published by Granta Books in 2018. She lives in London and occasionally Canterbury.
Haroun Khan is a South London writer and has recently released his debut novel The Study Circle. Drawing upon his own experiences growing up on a council estate, this is a study of urban Muslim youth living life at the intersection of race, religious and social tumult; we’ve read it and we think it’s relevant, sharp and often very funny – check out Haroun’s piece about it here https://deadinkbooks.com/my-political-novel-by-haroun-khan/.
Finally, we’re very pleased to showcase the words of Ashley Hickson-Lovence who was born in 1991 and grew up in Hackney, London. He is a former football referee and secondary school English teacher and is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His debut novel The 392 will be released with OWN IT! (https://ownit.london/shop/the-392-by-ashley-hickson-lovence/) on the 25th of April 2019 – you read him here first!
So dear writers, as we head ever onwards into 2019, sharpen your pencils… the image is the starting point, the text is up to you.
Preti, Kristen, Lucie, Rithika and Luke
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